Produktbeschreibung
This 144 page book contains Cloud Captains of Mars, which details the famous piratical cloud captains and Karkarham - the Casablanca of Mars! Conklin's Atlas of the Worlds and Handy Manual of Useful Information contains detailed information and maps on the solar system of the Space:1889 universe, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Luna.
CONKLIN'S ATLAS OF THE WORLDS:
Conklin's Atlas supplies vital information, for player and referee alike, to broaden the horizons of adventure throughout the Solar System.
An informative timeline covers 1879 to 1889, putting political developments, scientific achievements, and important inventions in historical context. Mercury's temperate Twilight Zone is completely covered, with encounter charts, animal descriptions, rare finds, and rules for travel down the World River. Twenty pages of maps and essays on Venus part the veil of mystery covering this fog-shrouded, jungle planet.
Detailed maps and descriptions of the land of the Moon Men and the vast underground rivers and seas at the bottom of Luna's Great Canyon are included. Maps and essays descibe the cultures, languages, and treasures of Mars (where exactly does liftwood grow?). Color maps cover the Belgian Coprates and the hundreds of miles of meandering bayous and marshes east of Crocea on the frontier of the Oenotrian Empire.
The extensive section on Earth provides needed background on its geography in 1889, as well as the political intrigues and rivalries that spark many adventures. Particular attention is paid to Africa, with maps, essays, encounter tables, stock NPC descriptions, and animal statistics providing everything needed to ran safaris into the interior. Mysteries of Africa - the Lost City of the Romans, King Solomon's Mines, the Elephant Graveyard - are also covered.
In addition, this module contains a brief rules section on combat between aquatic vessels, as well as rules for the creation of Martian city-states, from population through government, economy, the armed forces, and even down to local corruption. Conklin's is an indispensable guide book to adventure in Space: 1889.
CLOUD CAPTAINS OF MARS:
High amidst the lofty peaks of the Shistomik Mountains sits the rich and deadly city of Karkarham, perched at the crossroads of a world. Almost anything can be found in its bustling marketplace, but Karkarham is more than a simple commercial center. It is also the home port for that colorful and bloodthirsty company of pirates, brigands, and adventurers known as the cloud captains of the Shistomik.
Like the pirates of the Caribbean, who, centuries earlier, plundered the ships of the Spanish Main and were allowed to dock at Port Royal by a corrupt governor, the cloud captains of the Shistomik Mountains plunder the rich spice ships of the Boreosyrtis League, the fat oil luggers of Olonia, and eastern merchantmen carrying jewels from Amazonia or ancient relics from the blasted ruins of Zephyria. All are fair game for the cloud captains, who find safe haven in Karkarham in return for a split of the profits.
Cloud Captains of Mars details the pirates and privateers who gather at Karkarham. It gives an extensive listing of its captains, ships, habits, and haunts. The city of Karkarham is covered at length, including how to get to Karkarham, how it is defended, what you will find there, and how to contact the cloud captains or even the legendary Red Captains. In addition, this book provides rules for hiring crews, hunting down and seizing merchant ships, and selling prizes in Karkarham's markets for those intrepid players who long to feel the wind in their face, a deck beneath their feet, and no flag flying overhead but the Jolly Roger. |
